> Hi, > > I want to erase all information for mailboxes to have a fresh start. > > I am running cyrus version 2.1.16 at a debian testing server. > > I have had copied hundreds of user mailboxes and shared folders partly > by mistake to the wrong sytstem path and have built the mailboxes.db > by a script running reconstrut for all folders and all user mailboxes > which led to a mailbox.db which has information about mailboxes which > are not used. FYI: I have had a mistake at my rsync script because of > whitespaces, so subfolders were not sent to the right place but spread > over to incorrect folders. > > When detecting the malplaced folders, I decided to correct my rsync > script and run it after having erased all folders and user mailboxes. > Now I have the correct system path structure, that is ok so far. > > How do I rebuild the cyrus mailboxes internal information from scratch > getting cyrus forget about nonexistent mailboxes? > > The argument -m is unfortunately not supported at this version of cyrus. > > Can I "echo > mailboxes.db" and run a reconstruct again and everything > is fine?
I think you have to create a mailbox list with a suitable script. Then you can remove the mailboxes.db and import the mailbox list into a new mailboxes.db. Simon > BTW: Is there a wildcard allowed to rebuild all shared folders (placed > below the user directory) and all user mailboxes so that you don't have > to call reconstruct for each? > > cu > Sascha > > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
